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Been another week so it's time to talk about my humor blog, which was mostly wrapping up the thing I most look forward to writing every year. I'm sad it's away for months now unless I decide otherwise.
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I now bring you to the fairy tale forest at Idlewild. Great spot.
Outside this big cheese sculpture is this rhyme that I don't remember seeing elsewhere. This --- and a lot of the fairy-tale signs --- are new since our last visit a dozen years prior.
That's the cheese sculpture. You know we don't get Swiss cheese holes like that anymore.
Around back is where you enter the cheese. The sign, I believe, dates to our previous visit.
Here's what the park looks like from inside a block of cheese.
Over here we see where the Three Bears are when Goldilocks is prowling around their place: they're checking out their apiary.
The inside of the Three Bears' house, with some of the stuff Goldilocks has yet to break.
There's the beds. No sign of anyone inside, though.
And here's Geppetto's Workshop. They had a guy inside talking about his son, Pinocchio, doing a bit of talk about how who knows where his son is and there's something about a Hollywood adaptation.
Inside Geppetto's Workshop. It at least looks like the sort of stuff you might use to carve and dress a puppet.
Another old sign encouraging people to not deliberately mess up the grass.
And oh, hey, a dragon! I don't think he's part of any particular fairy tale that I remember.
Dragon's just got this little pile of rocks to hang out.
Trivia: Tapa, a paper-like material made by beating and stretching and drying wild fig tree bark, has been found in South America dating back almost as long as there is evidence of inhabitation; there are stone tapa beaters almost ten thousand years old. Source: Paper: Paging through History, Mark Kurlansky.
Currently Reading: Michigan History, September/October 2025, Editor Kristen Brennan.
